“After buying six mandolins and umpteen books…I am convinced your course is best $100 I have invested in my mandolin journey to date. Finally, I’m getting the discpline I need with your exercises to learn scales, arpeggios, double stops, fingering techniques, learn the fretboard (the essential tools I need)…and most importantly to learn how those things fit into playing tunes.”—Rick D., Bluegrass Mandolin 101 student
“I have to say that making everything available online is a great convenience for me. Being able to stop and return to a more challenging exercise or a newer phrase is a great for learning. I also really appreciate your availability to answer questions offline. This is a great course, and I feel as though I’m improving daily because of it.”—Joe C., Bluegrass Mandolin 101 student
Register for Swing Mandolin Jamming with Matt Flinner
This course is intended to help the aspiring mandolinist build up repertoire and find ways of creating new solos over swing tunes; it’s also designed in the hope that it will encourage students to get out and jam with other players!
Each week, we’ll look at four swing standard tunes with a particular concept in mind—Dominant 7 chords, ii/V/Is etc. Students will be given lead sheets (in standard notation and tablature) for each song, as well as a few exercises to help them learn more about the fretboard and start incorporating new ideas into their solos. Concepts and tunes will be taught during the class session, and all tunes will be revisited during Saturday practice sessions in a “jam session” format, where each song is played several times though, and students have the opportunity to try out some of the week’s concepts on the tunes (with guidance from Matt). Ways of playing the chord progressions will also be suggested, so students will have a guide for playing backup as well as lead and improv on all four tunes.
Classes meet Tuesday evenings from July 7 to July 28 at 9 pm eastern time. There will also be 45-minute review sessions every Saturday morning from July 11 to August 1 at 11 am eastern time.
Register for Swing Mandolin Jamming with Matt Flinner
See the Bluegrass Mandolin Jamming curriculum
See the Mandolin Picking Technique Intensive curriculum
SWING MANDOLIN JAMMING CURRICULUM:
WEEK 1 (7/7)
Using 7th chords
Scales and arpeggios for 7th chords
Moving from chord to chord in soloing
It Had to Be You
Sweet Georgia Brown
Lady Be Good
Up a Lazy River
WEEK 2 (7/14)
ii-V-I Progressions
A couple of ii-V-I lines
Chord inversions on ii-V-Is
Sweet Sue
Take the “A” Train
Three Little Words
Honeysuckle Rose
WEEK 3 (7/21)
Modulations
Some more ii-V lines
Chord tones as target notes
How High the Moon
Blue Moon
Have You Met Miss Jones
I Can’t Give You Anything but Love
WEEK 4 (7/28)
Minor keys
Scales and arpeggios for minor chords
Minor ii-V progressions
Summertime
I’ve Found a New Baby
It Don’t Mean a Thing if It Ain’t Got That Swing
Topsy
The course fee is $125.
See the Bluegrass Jamming (July 6-August 1) curriculum
See the Mandolin Picking Technique Intensive (July 8-August 1) curriculum
Questions? Email [email protected]
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